Hi Margie,
Sorry but it wasn't a nde. It was just an experience like I've been saying all along. The only thing I can relate it to is like a nde, but I didn't die or almost die that I know of. The only people that seem to relate to it are nde's though. I can't say if it was real, a dream, illusion, hallucination or figment of the imagination. What I do know is it changed my outlook forever. I wish it would have changed me in every way, but that wouldn't be real I guess.
Also I felt the love from that experience for a two or three days afterwards. I know that for sure, and it wasn't like any other love I've felt before. I guess it was more genuine or holy or something. It was in every cell in my body. It ran right through me like those UV heaters that don't produce heat. It was like a wave washing right through me. It was like two beings became one literally. Something was actually in me and I was in it, and what ever it was, was the most loving thing I've ever experienced. Those are the things that convinced me there was something to it, and that I should follow it where ever it leads. I was just starting to see if there was something to the Bible and Christianity when it happened. I was going though several life changing experiences already. Enough things where a lot of people have killed themselves for a lot less, and it was the first time I actually thought about it too. I held on in the face of absolute destruction to that experience and here I am today better than I've ever been. Still a long way to go, but I'm not where I was.
I could try and write down what I experienced, but I've tried before and since it happened back in 2000 and the nature of it, I've never been able to do it justice. I forget some things, can't explain some things, and didn't really understand some things. So I just mention the things I remember when I remember them or like when Rudi mentions things and it triggers my memory. One other thing I know for sure is there's something beyond the material world where we live now because I've experienced it, and as far as I can tell, it was God. Hey I just thought maybe it was some kind of out of body experience. Never thought of that one before. Oh well I believe some day I'll know.
Take Care Margie! (Hope you like this song too! It's called The Gathering)